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Samuel D. Fuhlendorf
Professor


Education

BS: Agricultural Sciences, Angelo State University, May 1987
MS: Rangeland Ecology and Management, Texas A&M University, August 1992
PhD: Rangeland Ecology and Management, Texas A&M University, August 1996

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Curriculum Vitae  

Teaching

RLEM 4571 Senior Seminar
RLEM 5020 Graduate Seminar
RLEM 5760 Invasive Species

Honors and Awards

Award for Best Wildlife Publication - 2006, The Wildlife Society
Award for Best Scientific Publication - 2004, Society for Range Management (Texas Section)
Ecological Society of America, Rangeland Section, Chair 2003-2004
USDA-NRI Managed Ecosystems Program Panelist 2003
USDA-NRI Managed Ecosystems Program Panelist 2004
James A. Whatley Award for Meritorious Research in Agricultural Science, Division of Agricultural Sciences
     and Natural Resources, Oklahoma State University, 2001
Outstanding Faculty Research Award, OSU, Plant and Soil Science Department, 1999
Oustanding Youth Range Professional, Society for Range Management, 1999Phoenix Award for Outstanding Graduate Faculty 1999, OSU-GSA, Finalist
Recognized as an Effective Teacher/Advisor in the 1999 OSU Student Satisfaction and Institutional
     Priorities Survey

Who's Who in Agriculture Higher Education, Academic Keys - 2003
Society for Range Management, Oklahoma Section, Directory 1999-2001
Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society for Agriculture, Member
Society for Range Management Member Since 1990
International Association of Vegetation Science, Memeber since 1997
Ecological Society of America, Member since 1995

Professional Memberships

Associate Editor for Rangeland Ecology and Management, 2004-2006
Ecological Society of America, Rangeland Section, Chair-elect 2002-2003
Range Science Education Council, Member 2000-Present
Range Science Education Council, Secretary 2002
Range Science Education Council, V. President 2003
Range Science Education Council, President 2004
 

Recent Publications (since 2005)

Briske, D.D., S.D. Fuhlendorf, and F.E. Smeins. 2005. Invited Synthesis. State-and-transition models, thresholds, and rangeland health: A synthesis of ecological concepts and perspectives. Rangeland Ecology and Management 58:1-10 – inaugural issue of a new journal (Impact Factor = 0.7)
 
Vermeire, L.T., D.B. Wester, R.B. Mitchell, and S.D. Fuhlendorf. 2005. Fire and grazing effects on wind erosion, soil water content, and soil temperature. Journal of Environmental Quality 34:1559-1565. (Impact Factor = 1.6)
 
Guthery, F.S., A.R. Rybak, W.R. Walsh, S.D. Fuhlendorf, T.L. Hiller. 2005. Quantifying Usable Space for Wildlife with Use-availability Data. Journal of Wildlife Management. 69:655-663 (Impact Factor = 1.5)
 
Churchwell, R., C. A. Davis, S. D. Fuhlendorf, and D. M. Engle. 2005. Direct impacts of cattle grazing on grassland nesting birds. Oklahoma Ornithological Bulletin 38:25-30
 
Suedkamp, K. M., and S. D. Fuhlendorf.  2005. Comparison of microclimate at grassland bird nests with different substrates. The Prairie Naturalist. 37:21-28 (Impact Factor = NA)
 
Lusk, J.J., S.G. Smith, S.D. Fuhlendorf, and F.S. Guthery. 2006. Factors Influencing Northern Bobwhite Nest-Site Selection and Fate. Journal of Wildlife Management-Accepted January 2006. (Impact Factor = 1.5)
 
Briske, D.D., S.D. Fuhlendorf, and F.E. Smeins. 2006. Invited Synthesis. A Unified Framework for Threshold Assessment and Application. Rangeland Ecology and Management (In press). (Impact Factor = 0.7)
 
Fuhlendorf, S.D., W.C. Harrell, D.M. Engle, R.G. Hamilton, C.A. Davis, and D.M. Leslie Jr. 2006. Should heterogeneity be the basis for conservation? Grassland bird response to fire and grazing. Ecological Applications. 16 (5) 1706-1716 (Impact Factor = 3.8)
 
Anderson, R.H. and Fuhlendorf, S.D. and Engle, D.M. 2007. Soil N availability in tallgrass prairie under the fire - grazing interaction. Rangeland Ecology and Management (In Press)
 

Townsend, D.E., S.S. Ditchkoff and S.D. Fuhlendorf. 2007. Species-specific transmitter height influences error fo ground-based radio-telemetry. Wildlife Biology 13 (1) march 2007. (impact factor = 0.7)

Weir, JR, TG Bidwell, KR Hickman, SD Fuhlendorf. 2007. Fire: Myths and Facts. Oklahoma State University, Cooperative Extension Service L-321, Stillwater OK.

Weir, JR. SD Fuhlendorf, DM Engle, T.G. Bidwell, D.C. Cummings, D. Elmore. 2007. Patch Burning: Integrating Fire and Grazing to promote heterogeneity. Cooperative Extension Service E-998, Stillwater OK.

Cummings, D.C., T.G. Bidwell, C.R. Medlin, S.D. Fuhlendorf, D. Elmore, J.R. Weir. 2007. Ecology and Management of Sericea Lespedeza. Cooperative Extension Service PSS-2874, Stillwater OK.

Kerby, J.D., D.M. Engle, S.D. Fuhlendorf, D.L. Nofziger, and T. G. Bidwell. 2007. Patch burning as a heterogeneity approach to rangeland management. Pages 158-162. in

R.E. Masters and K.E.M. Galley(eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference: Fire in Grassland and Shrubland Ecosystems. Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee Florida, USA.

Fuhlendorf, S.D. and D.M. Engle. 2007. Restoring the fire-grazing interaction for grassland conservation and management. Page 157. in R.E. Masters and K.E.M. Galley(eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference: Fire in Grassland and Shrubland Ecosystems. Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee Florida, USA.

Twidwell, D., S.D. Fuhlendorf, D.M. Engle, and C.A. Taylor. 2007. Spatial  variation of fire effects in a Juniperus-Quercus Savanna. Page 192.in R.E. Masters and K.E.M. Galley(eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference: Fire in Grassland and Shrubland Ecosystems. Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee Florida, USA.

Kerby, Jay, T. Bidwell, S. Fuhlendorf. 2007. Rotational Grazing without fences. Natural Resource News 1: 1.

Weir, JR, SD Fuhlendorf, DM Engle, TG Bidwell, DC Cummings, D Elmore. 2008. Patch Burning: Integrating fire and grazing to promote heterogeneity. Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Oklahoma State University, E-998.

Engle, D.M., B.R. Coppedge, and S.D. Fuhlendorf. From the Dust Bowl to the green glacier: human activity and environmental change in Great Plains grasslands. 2008. Pages 253-271, In: O. Van Auken (ed.). Western North American Juniperus Communities. Springer, New York.

Fuhlendorf, S.D., S.R. Archer, F.E. Smeins, D.M. Engle, and C.A. Taylor, Jr. 2008. The combined influence of grazing, fire, and herbaceous productivity on tree–grass interactions. Pages 219-238, In: O. Van Auken (ed.). Western North American Juniperus Communities. Springer, New York.

Allred, B, R. Limb, S. Robertson, and S.D. Fuhlendorf. 2008. Learning Land Management: The new classroom. Natural Resource News 2: 1-2.

Weir, JR, TG Bidwell, RD Elmore, KR Hickman, SD Fuhlendorf, DM Engle. 2009. Weed Control on rangelands. Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Oklahoma State University, NREM-2882.

Weir, JR, D. Elmore, TG Bidwell, DM Engle, JD Carlson, SD Fuhlendorf. Oklahoma Prescribed Burning. Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Oklahoma State University, E-1010.

Fuhlendorf, Samuel D., Brady W. Allred, and Robert G. Hamilton. 2010. Bison as Keystone Herbivores on the Great Plains: Can Cattle Serve as Proxy for Evolutionary Grazing Patterns? ABS Working Paper No. 4

Office: 471 Ag Hall
Address: 008C Ag Hall
Stillwater, OK 74077
Phone: (405) 744-9646
Fax: (405) 744-3530
Email:  
sam.fuhlendorf@okstate.edu

 

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